Anila Agha

Anila Agha:

All the Flowers Are For MeAugust 24 - September 22, 2017

Opening Reception August 24, 4:30pm-7:30pm

The Harold J Miossi Art Gallery is proud to present Anila Agha's immersive installation
All the Flowers Are For Me. Anila Agha was the recipient of ArtPrize Grand Rapids
in 2014 and her work was recently awarded the Cincinnati Art Museum’s 2017 Schiele
Prize. Her work is timely, cross-disciplinary and truly captivating. The gallery will
be hosting a student reception at 12pm on Thursday, August 24 and a public reception
and artist talk at 4:30-7:30pm. Epoch Estate Wines is generously sponsoring wine for
this event.

About Anila: Anila Quayyum Agha was born in Lahore, Pakistan. She has an MFA in Fiber
Arts from the University of North Texas. Agha’s work has been exhibited in over seventeen
solo shows and fifty group shows and has won numerous awards and grants. Most recently,
Agha won the two top prizes at ArtPrize 2014, in the international art competition
held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her entry, titled “Intersections”, earned the ArtPrize
2014 Public Vote Grand Prize and split the Juried Grand Prize in a tie. Agha works
in a cross disciplinary fashion with mixed media; creating artwork that explores global
politics, cultural multiplicity, mass media, and social and gender roles in our current
cultural and global scenario. As a result her artwork is conceptually challenging,
producing complicated weaves of thought, artistic action and social experience. www.anilaagha.com.

“Having lived on the boundaries of different faiths such as Islam and Christianity,
and in cultures like Pakistan and the USA, my art is deeply influenced by the simultaneous
sense of alienation and transience that informs the migrant experience. Through the
use of a variety of media, from large sculptural installations to embroidered drawings
I explore the deeply entwined political relationships between gender, culture, religion,
labor and social codes." - Anila Agha

The Harold J Miossi Art Gallery is open M-F 11am-12pm and the first & third Saturdays
of the month from 12pm-4pm. Email gallery@cuesta.edu with any questions!